I was going to joke Dell killed XPS a long, long time ago already.

It’s amazing how these very unregulated tech companies that have been proven time and time again to steal user data and mess up have this blind trust from the public.

Kind of a compromise for smaller countries that want to have a standing army. And some countries offer alternatives like civil service or paying additional taxes instead for those that don’t want to serve in the military.

The US having expensive higher education driving poorer people to join the military to afford it is bleaker honestly.

Michelle Obama tried tackling this and fast-food PR destroyed her with claims she was “fat shaming”.

There’s a huuuuuge lobby to fight in order to solve this and it should be tackled. But again, profits will be put before people’s health and lives.

The obesity problem in the US is so bad, the Army is facing issues finding enough recruits fit for service. There’s even a program to get people back into shape just so they can try to get into the Army.

In those times there had been more than one popular free app that suddenly started installing crap on user’s machines.

I guess he just didn’t want to become attached to junkware being installed on people’s machines.

I don’t have the details but may they wanted to buy the source code from him and close it?

It’s because Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a GOAT and said “non” to fuck-you amounts of money to sell out VLC.

I don’t know if I’ve had the strength to say no to that much money and obviously, that kind of cash has corrupted all but a few bastions of what makes the Internet an awesome place.

Shoutout to Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin fame and all those supporting the lists it depends on. Some many adblockers sold out (including the original uBlock) but he champions on making the Internet a remarkably better place when used. Dude even refuses donations (says list maintainers deserve it more).

Let’s suppose they somehow perfect LLMs to write code.

So now we can tell in plain English what our applications need to do! But English (and most human languages) are open to interpretation so our prompts need to be really detailed and unequivocal. Hum, wasn’t that the reason we made programming languages in the first place? In order to provide concise and unequivocal instructions to computers?

And as you say, LLMs don’t think, don’t have domain-specific knowledge they can apply, and don’t ask questions where things are unclear or problematic.

Crappy copy/pasta jobs for crappy applications will suffer but there will always be a place for talented programmers.

Indie devs have been there forever. Can’t compete on the AAA features? Compensate with interesting art and smart tech.

So kids don’t get healtcare?